Go to library school

Frantically applying…

Academia has exhausted me.

I learned very little in library school that actually prepared me for the “real world.” However, you need it to get a professional position, so there is no way around it if you want to be a librarian! My advice.. just get it over with as quckly as possible…

Get it over with and go for it!

...you need to know going into it that the much-discussed “librarian shortage” is a lie.

maybe someday, need to get my technicians diploma first

Well, there is no guarantee. Nothing in life is guaranteed. BUT, the primary thing is service. We love to help people. Second, we love to keep the human record safe, clean, clear, and accessible. Third, we promote literacy- a citizen who can read, and write, and think, is a better citizen. Fourth, we believe in FREEDOM of thought, of reading, of writing, of access to information- we believe that it’s nobody’s business what you read or write, and that you should be able to read, and write, and think, whatever your little heart desires, with no monitoring of what you are doing. (ps, these ideas courtesy Michael Gorman)

This was really enjoyable as we covered so many varied topics and it really helped me when I started my first job to have that background in the different aspects of librarianship.

I’m working in a profession that might seem completely unrelated now, but it was my MLIS that opened those doors. The world would be a better place with more librarians running things…

i fell in love with librarianship almost 4 years ago and started library school in 2003. i discovered that it’s so much more than books and the grin squeaky shoes . . . (rambling starts here) it’s about intellectual freedom and helping people meet their information needs and bibliographic instruction and collection development and finding out about our communities/contingencies.
best of all – it’s such a great place to find others who are actually interested in the dewey decimal system or library of congress subject headings or (insert library/information center related topic here)